It is difficult to account for the settlement of so many French families in Scotland; the Bruces, Baliols, St.
Glairs, Montgomeries, Somervilles, Gordons, Frasers, Cummins; Colvilles, Umfrevilles, Mowbrays, Hays, Maules, who were not supported there, as in England, by the power of the sword.

But the superiority of the smallest civility and knowledge over total ignorance and barbarism, is prodigious.] [Footnote 3: NOTE C, p.91.See Rymer, vol.ii.

p.533, where Edward writes to the king's bench to receive appeals from Scotland.

He knew the practice to be new and unusual; yet he establishes it as an infallible consequence cf his superiority.

We learn also from the same collection, (p.